#lit

Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry. . . Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her. ↗

— J. Ruth Gendler

#poetic #qualities #ruth-gendler #beauty

Shows can come and go. They can be a hit and then in three years, gone. There's some comfort in having the stability of a job and having children. It's a double-edged sword. ↗

— Calista Flockhart

#come #come and go #comfort #double-edged #double-edged sword

It's never about the screwup - it's always about the recovery. That's the thing about it... if it comes out a little rare you call it carpaccio. It comes out a little overcooked, you shred it up and put in on a sandwich. ↗

— Tyler Florence

#always #call #comes #little #never

Opera is given so little attention in the national press. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#given #little #little attention #national #opera

Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#labyrinths #possibilities #beauty

The trouble is that right now I want to put as much work into football as I can. It's very important for me to get off to a good start. By the same token, I feel a responsibility to handle the media and those sort of things. ↗

— Doug Flutie

#football #get #good #handle #i

Hey, I'm just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my nephews, play pickup basketball. I've always had that ability to move on to the next thing. ↗

— Doug Flutie

#always #baseball #basketball #coach #excuse

My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it. ↗

— John W. Vessey, Jr.

#before #defense #give #job #know

When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway? ↗

— Henry Flynt

#about #anyway #artists #became #began

Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#politics #vocation